- A rule or regulation issued by the President or another executive official to help enforce a treaty, law, or court ruling
Your answer:
presidential agreement
presidential decree
executive order
executive privilege
- A presidential speech required by the Constitution, customarily given yearly at the beginning of each session of Congress
Your answer:
Treaty Message
Presidential Address
State of the Union Address
Congressional Address
- The right of the President and other top executive officials to refuse to appear before congressional committees and to withhold information from the courts
Your answer:
executive privilege
legislative veto
executive order
presidential privilege
- A general pardon given to a group of people who have broken the law.
Your answer:
amnesty
pardon
judicial hearing
presidential parole
- A President's indirect veto of a bill, exercised by failing to act on it after Congress has adjourned
Your answer:
presidential veto
legislative veto
pocket veto
veto
- The power of a President or governor to reject part of a bill while signing the rest into law
Your answer:
item veto
pocket veto
veto
presidential veto
- The system by which classified public employees are hired and promoted on the basis of merit rather than political party affiliation
Your answer:
crony appointments
spoils system
civil service
civil system
- The law, passed by Congress in 1973, restricts the President's use of American troops abroad by requiring him or her to generally get approval from Congress before committing troops to battle zones
Your answer:
Battlefield Resolution
War Resolution
War Powers Act
Presidential War Powers
- A formal agreement between foreign nations that must be ratified by a 2/3 vote of the U.S. Senate
Your answer:
senatorial courtesy
treaty
presidential order
executive order
- The U.S. is represented overseas by thousands of diplomatic personnel who are members of this branch of the State Department
Your answer:
Central Intelligence Agency
Civil Service
Foreign Entanglements
Foreign Service
- The highest-ranking diplomat appointed to represent the President and carry out foreign policy in an assigned country
Your answer:
foreign policy expert
consul
ambassador
consulate
- When a government official (such as a Justice of the Supreme Court, a President, or a governor) orders a delay in the carrying out of the punishment of a person convicted of a crime
Your answer:
reprieve
pocket veto
pardon
amnesty
- The power of the President to declare that a country's diplomatic personnel must leave the U.S. (a Latin term for "unacceptable person")
Your answer:
persona non grata
ingrate
consulate
singular non grata
- The President is called the in his role as head of the nation's military forces
Your answer:
commander in chief
chief of state
head honcho
big banana
- The recognition of a foreign government by exchanging diplomatic representatives
Your answer:
diplomacy
national recognition
diplomatic recognition
international cooperation
- When a President or governor legally releases someone from punishment (including imprisonment)
Your answer:
amnesty
ex parte punishment
parole
pardon
- An agreement, not requiring the Senate's approval, between the President of the U.S. and the leader of a foreign government
Your answer:
treaty
parole
executive agreement
presidential agreement
- A President's refusal to spend money appropriated by Congress
Your answer:
budgetary control
executive non appropriation
line item veto
impoundment